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It just makes me think that neocons will come after vpns soon.
So many businesses use vpns in their day to day operations. There would be a huge push back from companies with money.
They'd just carve out an exception for corporations but ban private use.
If you vpn in to work from home, from you isp’s pov it looks the same as if you used a “private” vpn.
Not if your company has to register the IP address range of the VPN connections they use. ISPs could whitelist registered IP address ranges and block all other known VPN addresses.
Cat and mouse. Incoming Delaware LLC registrations for individuals qualifying them for IP whitelists.
They can try, we see how compliant the US was during Covid. Imagine that, but now the resistance is on both sides. VPN bans is gonna cause riots.
With the FCC unable to enforce net neutrality, they don't even have to ban VPNs. Just hide some legislation inside an unrelated bill to give $250M to internet providers on the condition that they throttle VPN connections to 100 Kbps*, which those greedy fucks will happily accept.
*Likely worded as a stipend to improve the infrastructure, but only as long as the infrastructure is not used to aid terrorism™.
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